Paraquat Poisoning in a Female in the Fourth Decade of Life

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Mayra Evelyn Quiñones Martinez
Jose Jesus Zarur Bartolome
Kim Rodriguez Relingh

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This case report is about a woman in her fourth decade of life who, after a fight, went into a nervous-depressive crisis and decided to consciously ingest the herbicide paraquat. The patient is from a rural community and after 6 hours she decided to go to a tertiary level hospital located in the nearest city due to the persistence of her discomfort, In the emergency room she reported having consumed about 300 milliliters of paraquat, the effects were not immediate, but after 5 hours she began with asthenia, adynamia, sialorrhea, she was hospitalized for 10 days presenting the three phases described, starting with the gastrointestinal phase, the hepatorenal phase where on the fourth day after ingestion there was a peak elevation of hepatic transaminases and azo levels and the pulmonary phase causing a type of pulmonary lesion, since the alveolar spaces were filled with microhemorrhages, In this third level hospital, support care, hydration and medication were provided according to the literature, but despite the excessive amount consumed and the high mortality rate of this type of intoxication, it had an unfavorable end..

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Mayra Evelyn Quiñones Martinez, Bartolome, J. J. Z., & Kim Rodriguez Relingh. (2023). Paraquat Poisoning in a Female in the Fourth Decade of Life . International Journal of Medical Science and Clinical Research Studies, 3(06), 1159–1162. https://doi.org/10.47191/ijmscrs/v3-i6-24
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